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Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina
Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare, endemic to the high elevation Southern Appalachians of 4 states

Look for it on shaded brookbanks, rock outcrops with seepage, at high elevations (1200m & above), per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple: Pinnately lobed or dissected, appearing compound
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
White
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
6 stamens tetradynamous (2 short, 4 long)

FRUIT:
Summer
Silique

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p095
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p060

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Brassicales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Cardamine clematitis   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cardamine clematitis   FAMILY Brassicaceae

LESS THAN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 088-23-007:
Cardamine clematitis   FAMILY Brassicaceae